Coderguy’s Blog

The other day I found myself needing to know if a user was logged in to my Joomla site via javascript.  To accomplish this I did the following steps: 1. Add check function to user controller Open up <your root joomla dir>/components/com_user/controller.php and add the following function: public function check() { global $mainframe; $user =& [...]

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I found myself needing a really quick way to do an ajax call and get the value returned to a single var. I did a lot of searching and found a lot of convoluted responses that involved callbacks.  Using callbacks would be overkill for what I was doing. After much searching I finally found this [...]

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